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How do you apply stroke (outline around text) to a TextBlock in XAML in a Windows 8 store app (not WPF)? A very similar question was asked in 2008, but the suggested solution from Apply stroke to a ...

I have been implementing this solution explained here to make an outlinedTextbox. I have created a test project and added directly in the main namespace and it works. Now I want to add it to a ...

Is there any way I can add a stroke to the letters of a TextBlock, but I can't seem to figure out the properties: <TextBlock Text="Hello World"> <TextBlock.Resources> ...

Here there is a demo for a textBlock with an outlines. With the code below I get this result <local:OutlinedTextBlock Stroke="Red" FontSize="16" ...

I'm attempting to extend a Label control to support stroking the text ( sort of like this questions answer, but I want to extend a Label to do it rather than write a brand new ( ish ) control ). I've ...

I need to apply stroke (outline around text) to a textbox. I have tried some solutions: Edit the template of a textbox, using OutlinedTextblock (a custom control to draw the outlined text), but I ...

I have a textBox on an image stacked one above the other. The image may vary and so the text may be hidden by the colour below. I am searching for an effect like the one in the pic so that whatever ...

I am using this outlined textBlock that with the solution proposed by Javier G. works like a charm. I put it in a library so now it's HelperLib:OutlinedTextBlock. Now I would like to put it in a ...

Textblock does not implement the stroke property, and is a sealed class. The most common work-around for this is to create your own textblock class from FrameworkElement. However, I've recently ...